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42 a week, or 6 a day.

However, 30 eggs is only $3 where I live.

About 14. I'm not particularly price-sensitive about it given the absolute cost is low relative to many food options.

Eggs keep getting cited by people trying to blame their political opponents for increases in food prices because they have increased to about 2.5x from five years ago, which is a bigger increase than most foods. The bulk of the increase is due to the ongoing bird flu outbreak, but that fact doesn't seem to have great distribution among the general public.

Cause eggs are in fucking everything.

Eggs because:

Vance gave a quote bashing the price of eggs, but he cited a number much higher than the sign he was standing next to.

Dems pounced on this, mocking the blatant exaggeration and dismissing any concerns about a cost of living crisis.

It stuck around because it’s emblematic of the overall situation:

Repubs don’t give a shit about facts, just vibes, and wanna paint as dark of a picture as possible.

Dems only care about being correct on paper, and don’t give a shit about listening to the problems of ordinary people or doing anything that could be called “radical”.

Zero. I used to have a fried egg for lunch every day but many years ago something switched in my brain and now the flavor of them really puts me off.

I get that the point is inflation, but why eggs?

It's because the current avian flu, chicken and egg farms are having to kill a metric fuck ton of their chickens. 😢 Meanwhile spray tan is already vowing to gut the CDC and leave WHO.

Whatever gets put in pad Thai once a week.

Because eggs are seen as a very reasonable weekly purchase that a consumer can see a price delta in over a short period of time.

Probably like 2 dozen a week. I like eggs lol.

When our household was at full bore with the kids home, we could go through three dozen per week. It's not just eating them, it's cooking. Two eggs for a some cake, brownies, etc. one day of french toast (not doing that into the foreseeable future), if I did breakfast with eggs it would take anywhere from 6 to 10.

At our height of consumption we had four teenage boys, one teenage girl and a 10 year old who could out eat anyone at the table.

I'm just fortunate that our kids are mostly grown, but now they're struggling to keep food on their own tables.

I actually kept a small flock of chickens for a while because we would go through so many eggs.

I haven't eaten eggs in a decade, they're surprisingly easy to avoid.

As many as possible. It's one of the perks of my new job, free eggs.

Yes

It depends. Eggs are part of cakes and pancakes, and a very quick to cook healthy thing to eat. Family of 4 now, we go through between 8 eggs on a light week and 32 eggs on a week I make a lot of egg stuff, or if someone is bulking, like today I made shakshuka for supper and a cake, that's eight eggs in one meal.

I think they are a commodity and historically a cheap source of animal protein, that's why they are talked about.

Zero after I went vegan 3 years ago.

And honestly, when you know your way around a little and stick mostly to whole foods, it gets dirt cheap if you try. 💚

about 3 fiddy

8-12. They ~~are~~ were inexpensive, versatile protein.